Monday, September 17, 2012

Why You Can’t Have The Latin Mass

When the new form of the Mass was introduced in the 1960s,
there was no popular demand for it. Supply was not thought to be a detriment
either: all the priests in the world were trained in the old form of the Mass,
but the changes were implemented anyway.

What made the change possible were the bishops simply
saying, “We are doing this for your own good. The Church needs to adapt, and we
will shepherd you through the process.” The average parishioner in the pew,
then, was not asking for the change; instead, the change was imposed from
above, under color of authority.

The bishops today are the souls who championed the changes to
the new form of the Mass; they imposed it; they directed the change to take place;
they allowed the innovations to occur, and all this without a request or
mandate from the majority of the faithful. The chief reason that the new Mass
remains the norm, then, is that the bishops want it; they simply do not want
the old Mass.

With sufficient motivation by the authorities, the lack of a
demand and the lack of a supply were not an impediment to change in the 1960s.
Absent the leadership of the hierarchy, all the demand in the world for the Latin Mass will not be
supplied.

Who I Am

Name: Sean /
Nationality: U.S.A. /
Creed: Catholic /
Philosophy: Gnomish wisdom for the most part; to the extent I’ve made a formal assessment, moderate realism /
Passions: Faith, family, country; Irish and English folk music; reading and literature; Tolkien trivia; travel /
Zodiac: Aries, Monkey, Gen-X /
Maps are tools for making sense of the world as it presents itself to the senses.
Keys give passage to the realm of knowledge and substance: they allow the mind to apprehend the workings behind what the senses detect.
Clocks, calendars, and the like point the way to time, numbers, infinity, universals, eternity, the absolute, the immeasurable, the never-ending. All three are products of minds capable of thought, memory, and imagination.
From sense to substance to permanence: because not everything is relative.